[RELEASE] Release opentelemetry-cpp 1.18.0 #10654

Job	Run time
Bazel asan config	20m 23s
Bazel nortti	16m 56s
Bazel noexcept	16m 43s
Bazel without bzlmod	17m 0s
Bazel on MacOS	13m 39s
Bazel	17m 52s
Bazel with async export	17m 12s
Bazel tsan config	17m 43s
Bazel valgrind	9m 19s
Benchmark	12m 38s
CMake test (with abseil)	4m 50s
CMake clang 18 (maintainer mode, abiv2)	8m 59s
CMake clang 18 (maintainer mode, async)	8m 52s
CMake clang 18 (maintainer mode, sync)	8m 31s
CMake do not install test (with otlp-exporter)	15m 25s
CMake gcc 14 (maintainer mode, async)	6m 48s
CMake gcc 14 (maintainer mode, sync)	6m 43s
CMake install test (with abseil)	4m 35s
CMake test (with modern protobuf,grpc and abseil)	19m 1s
CMake msvc (maintainer mode)	6m 51s
CMake msvc (maintainer mode) with C++20	8m 15s
CMake test (with opentracing-shim)	4m 41s
CMake test (build shared libraries with otlp-exporter and static gRPC)	14m 33s
CMake test (with otlp-exporter)	14m 20s
CMake test (without otlp-exporter)	4m 44s
CMake C++14 test(GCC)	4m 15s
CMake C++17 test(GCC)	5m 15s
CMake C++20 test(Clang with libc++)	8m 37s
CMake C++20 test(GCC)	8m 46s
CMake C++23 test(Clang with libc++)	8m 34s
CMake C++23 test(GCC)	8m 32s
CMake test (without otlp-exporter and with async export)	5m 4s
Code coverage	11m 20s
Copyright	9s
DocFX check	1m 12s
Format	33s
markdown-lint	7s
misspell	7s
Plugin -> CMake	55s
shellcheck	5s
W3C Distributed Tracing Validation V1	3m 53s
CMake -> exporter proto	12m 16s
Bazel Windows	32m 11s
CMake (With async export) -> exporter proto	11m 32s
Plugin -> CMake Windows	6m 43s
CMake -> exporter proto (Build as DLL)	22m 39s
	7h 29m 18s

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